Pat Crowe Returns to Omaha After Boer War Illicit Neighbors
Pat Crowe the alleged Eddie Cudahy kidnapper visited the World Herald office in Omaha with Thomas O'Brien. He said he fought with the Boers in the war and has lived quietly in Chicago for three years awaiting immunity negotiations. Crowe sought amnesty and hinted at starting a business if indictments were dropped, while police and detectives continued to search.
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Omaha
Pat Crowe
Eddie Cudahy
Packer
The
World Herald
Thomas O’brien
Henshaw Hotel
Crowe
Donahue
O’brien
World-Herald
Ompha
J. J. Crowe
Council Bluffs
Cudahy
Edward Cudahy, Jr
Jarre Ona T Establishment
Center Street
Young Cudahy
James Callahan
Callahan
Edward Cudahy
Crewe
Tragic Fatal Shooting Ends In Council Bluffs
An interview reveals a man appeared fifteen years older since last seen by friends in this city. Crowe fled to his brother Joe Shinders in Council Bluffs, then fatally shot Emma Richardson and killed himself. Both victims are described as negroes.
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Crowe
Council Bluffs
Joe Shinders
San Antonio
Emma Richardson
Storm Damage and Fraud Probe Distress Edmonds Area
At Edmond and Mulhall Oklahoma wind hail and rain ruined hundreds of trees. In Galveston immigration authorities probe fraud claims by Bremen immigrants enticed to Houston by an agent. About 175 foreigners paid their own travel costs, spent a night in a Houston car, and were charged $3 each before the swindler vanished.
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Edmond and
Mulhall
Okla
Galveston
Bremen
Houston
Fair
San Antonio
Torpedo boats sighted west of Hokkaido as Vladivostok squadron travels
Reports say torpedo boats appeared west of Hokkaido Friday, likely escorted by Vladivostok Squadron vessels though none seen Saturday. The burning sailing ship had most of its crew reach shore while the captain was captured. A rescue steamer left due to the storm after spreading kerosene and igniting the deck.
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Tokio
Vladivostok
Hokkaido
Kuropatkin Reported Returning to St Petersburg
Rumors of General Kuropatkin’s return from the front gain confirmation. General Zaroubateff, commander of the Fourth East Siberian corps, is said to have succeeded him. Failing health is given as the reason for Kuropatkin’s coming back to the capital.
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St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Zaroubateff
Fourth East Siberian Corps
Seventy Boys Strike Ties Up Long Island Oil Plant
In New York on May 6 seventy small boys led a strike at Standard Oil’s Dove Oil works in Long Island City forcing a temporary shutdown. About 100 employees were out of work as the plant paused work on steamship cargo destined for the Far East. The boys stopped after two of them were discharged and began picketing, insisting pay rise from $1 to $1.25 a day before returning.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
Long Island City
Dove Oil Works
Far East
Hull engagement announced in Birmingham society
Mr and Mrs George H Hull of Tuxedo Park New York announce the engagement of their daughter Griselda Houston Hull to Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson. The notice comes from Birmingham dated May 6.
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Birmingham
Ala
George H. Hull
Tuxedo Park
N. Y
Griselda Houston Hull
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Terrific Indian Territory storm injures several
A Welch special reports a severe storm sweeping central and northern Indian Territory May 6 injuring several people, with some seriously hurt. Crops ruined and low lying homes flooded as residents flee to higher ground.
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Muskogee
Welch
Indian Territory
Minor Matters Across States and Incidents
National Bank of Mexico buys gold bars. Davidson Oklahoma reports much town lot jumping. Jefferson Oklahoma opera house destroyed by fire. Keachie Louisiana main portion wiped out by fire. Mrs. Fannie C. Skelton shoots herself in Dallas and dies. Choate banquet hosted in London for retiring ambassador. Choctaw townsite commission sells 129 lots at Alderson. George Washington letter found at Sherman. Infant of J A E Knight of Merkel drowns in tub. Attorney General approves $60,000 San Antonio improvement bonds. T B Johnson’s San Antonio stationery store robbed of $200 goods. Ed Lowery, Paris Texas lineman, knocked unconscious by falling pole. Citizens of Jericho near Clarendon seek oil experts from Kansas.
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Davidson
Okla
Jefferson
Keachie
Fannie C. Skelton
Dallas
Ambassador Choate
London
Choctaw
Alderson
I. T
San Antonio
T. B. Johnson
Ed Lowery
Paris
Tex
Ciitizens
Jericho
Clarendon
Kansas
Bomb Threat Strikes Chicago Express Wagon riot
A bomb was reportedly thrown under a United States Express wagon at Desplaines and Van Buren, triggering a riot. Julius Hilbrecht was arrested for deadly assault and federal injunction violations, with James Rogers and Henry Pfeiffer later detained as police made arrests amid flying missiles and a damaged wagon.
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Chicago
United States Express Company
Julius Hilbrecht
United States Circuit Court
Desplaines
van Buren
Haymarket
Desplaines Street
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Kohlsaat
United States
Hilbrecht
James Rogers
Henry Pfeiffer
No Bomb Thrown in Chicago Incident. 3 Arrested
Special Agent Ed dy of the United States Express company states no bomb was thrown and no wagon damaged. Three men were arrested charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Two gave bond, Eddy says the alleged bomb was only blue powder in a breakable bag.
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Chicago
Eddy
United States Express Company
Bond
Four workers strike at Sears plant halting $3 million project
Chicago May 6 Chronicle reports that actions by four laborers led to 1900 Sears Roebuck employees at Redzite avenue and Taylor streets being laid off. The cooperative industrial site, worth several million, has stalled work. Unions opposed the walkout though leaders urged immediate return. Warrants were issued against strikers. The dispute centered on pay 45 cents versus 50 cents per hour for caisson workers.
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Chicago
the Chronicle
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Redzite Avenue
Taylor Streets
Large donation boosts steamsters strike fund in Chicago
Chicago May 6 Nearly 10 000 was added to the steamsters strike fund by an employee of the Union Traction company. The street car men voted to aid the strikers and collected 1 50 from each of 6500 employees approached for payment. Miss Lelia Ash swallowed thirty grains of morphine at Walver Oklahoma and died in fifteen minutes.
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Chicago
Steamsters
Union Traction Company
Lelia Ash
Walver
Okla
Tornado Strikes Owl Town Wrecking School and Church
A cyclone hit Owl, ten miles west of Coalgate, damaging multiple buildings including the Baptist church and the school. Fifteen children and a teacher were inside the school when it blew away. the teacher Professor John Vincent is seriously injured and two children may die. Many residents sought shelter in cellars as debris and uprooted trees scattered across the area.
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Coalgate
Owl
Here
Mica
John Vincent
Owl Tribune
Terrific storm sweeps Arkansas and Tennessee causing damage
Special reports from Arkansas and west Tennessee say a fierce wind and rain storm Friday damaged Pine Bluff area culverts and bridges, toppled trees, disrupted wire communications and delayed rail traffic. Eleven cars wrecked on the St. Louis and Iron Mountain line seven miles from Pine Bluff. Hot Springs and towns across the region reported structural damage but no loss of life.
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Memphis
Arkansas
West Tennessee
Pine Bluff
Ark
St. Louis and
Iron Mountain
Cotton Belt
Hot Springs
Banking Bill Passes Amid Amendments In Legislature
Austin May 6 Senate passed with amendments to a general banking bill governing capital and trust companies. House debated general appropriation Friday. Insurance tax action drew cheers as Governor Lanham sent a tax message. Two bills then introduced in the House seek a 2 percent gross premiums tax and the old franchise tax.
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Austin
Senate
Capital and Trust Companies
House
Lanham Friday
Death of Bertha de Mar after alleged poisoning at park frolic
Bertha de Mar, a fourteen year old colored girl, died in agony at her mother's home. She reportedly consumed strychnine after an Owens park evening of drinking and dancing, with her mother discovering her writhing on the front steps.
Russian Spy Antonovich Sentenced in Singapore
Vladimir Antonovich, accused Russian spy, received three months imprisonment for trespassing on government property and a $250 fine for possessing sketching materials in a fortified area on Brani Island. He has appealed the verdict.
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Singapore
Vladimir Antonovich
Brani
Antonovich
Emperor Nicholas Reviews Senior Cadets at Tsarko-Selo
In Tsarko-Selo on May 6 Emperor Nicholas reviewed the senior classes of page corps cavalry military engineers and St Petersburg infantry schools who had been commissioned four months early. He urged the newly commissioned officers to heed their duties and many were sent to the front immediately.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Tsarko-Selo
Lady Assaulted Near Malvern At Perlain
Telegram reports Mrs L Flickinger wife of the Owassa Milling secretary treasurer was assaulted by a negro in Perlain near Malvern Four suspects were arrested but she could not identify them and posses scour two counties seeking the assailant.
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Hot Springs
Evening News
Perlain
Malvern
Rampage on Brazos River Cuts Rail Service
Brazos River rose rapidly Saturday in the lower state forcing detours for Houston and Texas Central trains which were cut off. Santa Fe track used for the alternate route as flooding affected rail travel.
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Houston
Brazos River
Texas Central
Santa Fe
Hargis Jury Hung After Lexington Telegram
A Lexington Telegram report states the Hargis jury is hopelessly hung after Saturday afternoon. The Louisville dispatch notes the delay in the jury's verdict.
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Louisville
Lexington
Hargis
Italian Ambassador Hails Texas As Best Land
Baron dés Punches Italian ambassador to the United States arrived in Austin with his party and was hosted by Governor Tankham and lawmakers. He addressed the legislature praising Texas resources and said Italy planned to send colonies to the United States, noting Texas as the ideal destination.
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Austin
Texas
Legislature Advances General Appropriation Bill
The Texas House resumed work on the general appropriation bill on May 6. Appropriations were approved for the Confederate home and for the deaf, dumb and blind Institute, with no provision for state penitentiaries. An attempted $65,000 penitentiary appropriation failed, and other amendments were rejected. In the Senate, a committee cleared the legislature of any wrongdoing over stamps at the Austin post office. Governor recommendations led to two Bowser insurance tax bills: a 2.12 percent gross premiums tax and a franchise tax on insurers.
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Austin
Confederate Home, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute
Department of Insurance
Guinn
Love
Dallas
Senate
Looney
Woman in Hotel Imperial shoots self after cruel letters
A 38 year old woman believed to be Mrs. J W Gray of New Orleans attempted suicide in the Hotel Imperial. She left four letters to a man named Charlie and Olivia Parker, and died at a city hospital after the act. A man matching Gray’s description was absent. the suite was the finest on Broadway side.
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New York
J. W. Gray
New Orleans
Hotel Imperial
Gray
Grays
Broadway
Charlie
Ollie
Charles
Olivia Parker
St. Andrew’s Street
Widow of Chicago broker dies in Boston death case
Boston May 6. Miss Stone reports Mrs. J. W. Gray of Chicago, widow of a former Chicago broker, died by her own hand in Boston. She was thirty six, wealthy, and before marriage lived in New Orleans where her brother and sister still live.
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Boston
Miss Stone
Hotel Imperial
J. W. Gray
Chicago
Mr. Gray
New Orleans
Britt Victor Crowned World Lightweight Champion in 20-Round Duel
James M Britt defeated Jabez White of England after a grueling twenty rounds to win the world lightweight title. With 20 seconds left Britt landed a left to White’s jaw, leaving the challenger flat on his back before the referee halted the bout to prevent unnecessary punishment. White credited Britt as the better man despite the loss.
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San Francisco
James BM Britt
Jabez White
England
Britt
pooWerleas
White
Hes
Cered
Famine Feared as Chicago Grocers Suffer Strike Turmoil
Chicago grocers warn of famine as wholesale drivers strike disrupts supply. Retail firms shun union pickets or have supplies overturned, shifting business to smaller wholesalers. Downtown rioting includes attacks on drivers, overturned wagons, and bricks thrown from factory districts. Edward Lasham, union tensions, and police intervention mark a violent day amid the walkout.
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Chicago
Selz
Ohio
Kingsbury
Schultz
Schultz Factory
Edward Lasham
Sham Teaming Company
Maison
Union
Lasham
O'Connor
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Britt Victor
California
Jimmy Britt
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