Ontario Steamer Ontario Fire Off Montauk Point
Aboard the steamship Ontario with about ninety passengers, a fire broke out while between Montauk Point and Block Island on the way from Baltimore to Boston. Rescue efforts involved Coast Guard cutters, tugs, and lifesaving crews from Watch Hill as the ship reached Montauk, with reports of surf and damage ongoing.
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Baltimore
Boston
Anainaiali Ontario
the Merchants’ and ‘Miners’ Trasportation Company
Montauk Point
Ontario
Naval Station
Acushnet
Woods Hole
Easter Parade in Cincinnati Showcases Fashion and Joy
Crowds across Cincinnati churches and hillside suburbs celebrated Easter with vibrant fashion and festive worship. Merchants and millinery displays drew record attention in Glendale Hartwell Sayler Park College Hill Leveland Mount Washington Covington Newport as attendees filled streets in bright outfits. The scene blended reverence with cosmopolitan dress traditions, reflecting a citywide, multi neighborhood celebration of the holiday.
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Lady
Glendale
Hartwell
Sayler Park
College Hill
Leveland
Mount Washington
Covington
Newport
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
Judge Prescott Smith Dies Early Hours
Judge Prescott Smith died early this morning at 3:79. Born in Oakland near Warren and Clinton counties, he studied at Wesleyan College Delaware and practiced law in the city. Survived by his wife, daughter, a brother Horace Smith, a Kokomo sister, and uncle Judge Charles Jane. He was a Mason, civic member, and Methodist church member in Avondale.
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Prescott Smith
Oakland
Warren
Clinton
John Q. Smith
Congress
United States
Tibet
Judge Smith
Chio Wesleyan College
Delaware
Cincinnati
Juaze DO. W. Murphy
Atpaney
Clermont County
Superior Court
Murphy É
Horace Smith
Kokomo
Ind
Charles Jane
Common Press Court
Smith
Romer
Cincinnati Business Men's Club
Methodist Church
Avondale
Rebels accuse Madero of broken promises in Mexico
Three special commissioners from General Orozco in New York allege President Madero betrayed allies who helped overthrow Diaz. They charge misuse of funds and failure to protect safety and foreign business, claiming the revolution continues to push reforms begun under Diaz's rule.
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New York
General Orozco
Martini L. Lujan
Madero
Mexico
Diaz
Congress
Witten
Tuontes
Brett Mune
Tim of Laas
Fic
Vo Madero
Jwas
Maderto
Lorenzo Gonzales Trevino
Rios
Governor Marshall explains leaving law for politics
Washington April 7 Governor Thomas R Marshall of Indiana tells a YMCA audience why he forsook practicing law to enter politics saying he wanted a profession with breathing room for his conscience and less need to wink at the truth He decries decadence in law medicine and theology.
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Washington
Indiana
Thomas R. Marshall
iIndiana
Y. M.C
Federal office urged to supervise interstate corporations
Herbert Knox Smith, head of the Bureau of Corporations, urges creating a permanent federal administrative office to oversee interstate industrial companies. He argues courts alone cannot enforce effective restraint amid complex corporate interests and that dissolution alone cannot ensure reform. The report discusses two great restraints on business policy: automatic competition and direct government intervention.
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Washington
Herbert Knox Smith
Prospects for Taft Victory Rise in Week’s Political Push
The Commercial Tribune reports Gus J. Karger for the Taft administration says Taft has 280 delegates. this week features Louisiana and New York state conventions guiding Taft delegates, Pennsylvania primaries widening the gap against rivals, and primaries in Vermont Kentucky Michigan Maine Missouri Nebraska and more. Ohio strengthens his position as Highth and Seventeenth districts plus Hamilton county districts reaffirm support.
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Pennsylvania
Taft
Vermont
Kentucky
Michigan
Maine
Misouri
Nebraska
Accurt
Ohio
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Violent Riots in Bilbao Amid Carlist Demonstration
In Bilbao on April 7 a violent riot broke out as Carlists tried to disrupt a radical demonstration. Civil authorities clashed with protesters. one man was killed and about a dozen injured in the clashes.
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Bilbao
Civil Wer
Roosevelt Speaks Across Illinois and Pennsylvania Campaign Trail
Colonel Roosevelt attended services at Springfield First Presbyterian in Abraham Lincoln’s old pew then visited Lincoln’s tomb and Lincoln home. He spoke to large crowds in Illinois and prepared for a cross state and regional tour including Pittsburgh Philadelphia Reading Allentown and New York with multiple short speeches and wreath laying.
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Springfield
Coronel Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
First Presbyterian Church
Roosevelt
Deneen
Lincoln
Illinois
Tia Terry Tiserindiana
Jungheon
Gorbys Janes A. Rose
Pat Asti Northcott
Taft Pei¢Gn
Spartx
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jeanette
Greensburg
Latrobe
Blairsville
Johnstown
Altoona
Cresseun
Hientington
Lewiston
Mifflin
Harrisburg
Lancaster
Coatesville
Philadelphia
Philadelphia. & Reading Railroad
Reading
Allentown
Bastion
New York
Oyster Bay
New England
Mass
Boston Mand
New Hampshire
Nebraska
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Danville
Lafayette
Logansport
Peru
Wabash
Flood Toll Mounts As Mississippi River Rises
Thirty thousand homeless, two thousand square miles flooded, and as many as thirty deaths are reported from a two week flood in the Mississippi valley. Levees fail near Helena and Laconia Arkansas and Arkansas side holds at Golden Lake while fears grow of further breaches south of Memphis. Rescue trains and boats attempt to reach stranded refugees as rail routes collapse and the flood advances toward the gulf.
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Oder
Missis
Illinois
Mississippi
Arkansas
Memphis
Missouri
Tennessee
Golden Lake
Ohio
Missouri Line
Gulf
Tenn
Mississippi River
St. Caliie Loop
Columbus
Hickman
Tiptonville
Ridgeley
Osceola
Luxora
Ark
Lake County
Chicago, Memphis’ & Gulf Railroad
Hickmap
St. Claire
Crittenden
Poinsett
Coss
Helena
Laconia
Henrico
Tuasconia
Laconia Circle
Phillips County
Detha County
White River
St. Louis, Tren, Mountain & Southern
St. Low
San Francisco
St. Louis
Arkansa
Sport Writer Dies From Scissors Embrace Tragedy
Walter J. Snyder 87, editor of Sports of the Times, was found dead with four stab wounds in his Nicholas Avenue apartment. His wife Mrs. Mary Snyder was arrested for homicide after claiming the scissors pierced him during an embrace. Police noted conflicting statements and revealed prior marriages and elopements involving Snyder and Mary Karnes Caufield years earlier. The Hartford report adds Snyder’s 1909 Detroit elopement with Helen Caufield and later marriage details.
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New York
Walter J. Snyder
Sports of the Times
Nicholas Avenue
Belloes
Mary S. Snyder
Snyder
Ion
Baroner Hellenstein
Moe
Ated
Altormey Strong
Mary Karnes
Morristown
N. J
Helen Caufield
Hartford
Bertha Pdna Yeager
Detroit
Conn
Connecticut
Charter Oak Park
John Caufield
New Britain
Caufield
Kentucky
John Madden
Lexington
Misa Caufield
Tragic Love Triangle Ends in Double Funeral
In Logansport Indiana Otto G Brown 19 shot his 15 year old sweetheart Leona Ehlinger and then killed himself after Leona’s mother refused marriage due to their ages. He left two notes including one signed with his name and requested burial beside “Who defies this.”
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Logansport
Ind
Otto G. Brown
Macy
Bis
Leona Ehlinger
Brown
River flood threat expands as Mississippi dam breach displaces thousands
Washington reports a continued fall of the Ohio River at Cairo and a persistent decline along the Mississippi northward while floodwaters surge in the Reelfoot Lake region. About 2,000 people have been driven from their homes by a levee breach in southwestern Kentucky, with counties in Arkansas also underwater and villagers marooned on rooftops awaiting rescue by boat.
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Washington
Weather ‘Bureau
Ohio
Cairo
Mississippi
Memphis
Cincinnati
Evansv
Paducah
Catto
Helena
Vickaburg
Nateheg
Baton Rouge
Donaldsonville
New Orleans
St. Louis
Nashville
Reelfoot Lake
Tennessee
Kentucky
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